Before the dawn of mankind, in 2015 or so I joined the Matrix.org Ecosystem with some lofty
goals to build some mesh computing projects which could communicate
using Matrix's rooms as JSON message-passing queues. I never ended up
building any of those prototypes but did build a prototype Emacs Matrix client matrix-client.el
which I developed on for a few years until I started using EXWM – getting the two to play well together was
not worth it while debugging sync issues with request.el and trying to keep a a job that wanted me dead. I put down
a lot of my contributions over 2016-2019 and mostly folks picked them
up. Alphapapa took the
matrix-client codebase and ushered it along, eventually trying a new
method under the name ement.el, check it
out.
One of the other contributions was a Matrix room, #emacs:matrix.org
originally created under my first homeserver at whatthefuck.computer, and only delegated power
levels to the one active person in the room circa 2017 or whenever. I
subsequently lost the server key for whatthefuck.computer's
HS in 2017 when I lost a server without backups. Don't trust me
with running a system well when I'm not being paid for or given the time
to do it well, especially my own systems. :)
But I wasn't the only person who lost out there. This room doesn't
have active administrators now since I lost access to my @ryan:whatthefuck.computer alias, and that only
other admin has been AWOL since early on. A number of folks have asked
me about this now and I don't have a solution, unless someone wants to
help me gain brute-force access to that old homeserver key and can get
me to having an account which can federate as @ryan:whatthefuck.computer.
That alias is now pointed at ID !WfZsmtnxbxTdoYPkaT:greyface.org after Matrix.org admins intervened and rescued the room. good stuff.